Better Quote by T. E. Lawrence Download Open image “Half a calamity is better than a whole one.” — T. E. Lawrence ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Better Calamity Calamity Better Half Half Calamity Inspirational Love Whole
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it — Bill W Copy Share Image
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“In my case, the effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
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You can't force people to feel in a certain way, and the sooner you understand that,the better. I feel everything has its way of… — Sidharth Malhotra Copy Share Image
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The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
A strong, durable Puerto Rican economy will leave the island better prepared to handle future natural disasters. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
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Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
I like to collaborate with other people for studio recordings because I believe collaboration, in any form, makes music better. — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
